The Politics Of Place Naming

Author : Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch,Frederic Giraut
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781394188291

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The Politics of Place Naming by Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch,Frederic Giraut Pdf

Naming the places of the world is an essential human act of territorialization. As the subject of conflict or dispute, naming plays out in numerous ways that involve collective and individual relationships to space, whether functional or imaginary, as well as the identities related to them. Name traces also differ together with their inscription within landscapes and history. Names constitute a heritage, they bear witness, they mark places and thus contribute to the foundation of territories. Beyond place names, place naming reveals the functions and uses of names, but also the contradictory meanings that society bestows on them. With this framework in mind, that of critical toponymy, The Politics of Place Naming considers different points of view when studying place naming. These vary from linguistics to political and cultural geography, via history, anthropology, cartography, urban planning, digital humanities, subaltern studies and many other disciplines. This book honors this transversality by taking such studies into account in its examination of place naming.

Author : Jani Vuolteenaho
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351947268

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Critical Toponymies by Jani Vuolteenaho Pdf

While place names have long been studied by a few devoted specialists, approaches to them have been traditionally empiricist and uncritical in character. This book brings together recent works that conceptualize the hegemonic and contested practices of geographical naming. The contributors guide the reader into struggles over toponymy in a multitude of national and local contexts across Europe, North America, New Zealand, Asia and Africa. In a ground-breaking and multidisciplinary fashion, this volume illuminates the key role of naming in the colonial silencing of indigenous cultures, canonization of nationalistic ideals into nomenclature of cities and topographic maps, as well as the formation of more or less fluid forms of postcolonial and urban identities.

Author : Peter Jordan,Přemysl Mácha,Marika Balode,Luděk Krtička,Uršula Obrusník,Pavel Pilch,Alexis Sancho Reinoso
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030694883

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Place-Name Politics in Multilingual Areas by Peter Jordan,Přemysl Mácha,Marika Balode,Luděk Krtička,Uršula Obrusník,Pavel Pilch,Alexis Sancho Reinoso Pdf

This book explores the role of place names in the formation and maintenance of individual and group identities in multilingual and multi-ethnic situations. Using examples from Austria and Czechia as case studies, the authors examine the power of place names through an interdisciplinary and multi-methods approach that draws from the fields of anthropology, geography, sociolinguistics and toponomastics. The book contextualises both places within their social and political histories, and probes recent debates in the social sciences relating to place names, identity and power. It will be of interest to scholars and students focusing on place names and naming practices, minority communities and languages, and linguistic landscapes.

Author : Reuben Rose-Redwood,Derek Alderman,Maoz Azaryahu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317020707

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The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes by Reuben Rose-Redwood,Derek Alderman,Maoz Azaryahu Pdf

Streetscapes are part of the taken-for-granted spaces of everyday urban life, yet they are also contested arenas in which struggles over identity, memory, and place shape the social production of urban space. This book examines the role that street naming has played in the political life of urban streetscapes in both historical and contemporary cities. The renaming of streets and remaking of urban commemorative landscapes have long been key strategies that different political regimes have employed to legitimize spatial assertions of sovereign authority, ideological hegemony, and symbolic power. Over the past few decades, a rich body of critical scholarship has explored the politics of urban toponymy, and the present collection brings together the works of geographers, anthropologists, historians, linguists, planners, and political scientists to examine the power of street naming as an urban place-making practice. Covering a wide range of case studies from cities in Europe, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia, the contributions to this volume illustrate how the naming of streets has been instrumental to the reshaping of urban spatial imaginaries and the cultural politics of place.

Author : Reuben Rose-Redwood,Derek Alderman,Maoz Azaryahu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317020714

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The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes by Reuben Rose-Redwood,Derek Alderman,Maoz Azaryahu Pdf

Streetscapes are part of the taken-for-granted spaces of everyday urban life, yet they are also contested arenas in which struggles over identity, memory, and place shape the social production of urban space. This book examines the role that street naming has played in the political life of urban streetscapes in both historical and contemporary cities. The renaming of streets and remaking of urban commemorative landscapes have long been key strategies that different political regimes have employed to legitimize spatial assertions of sovereign authority, ideological hegemony, and symbolic power. Over the past few decades, a rich body of critical scholarship has explored the politics of urban toponymy, and the present collection brings together the works of geographers, anthropologists, historians, linguists, planners, and political scientists to examine the power of street naming as an urban place-making practice. Covering a wide range of case studies from cities in Europe, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia, the contributions to this volume illustrate how the naming of streets has been instrumental to the reshaping of urban spatial imaginaries and the cultural politics of place.

Author : Stella Theocharous
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031544156

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Street Naming and the Politics of Greek-Cypriot Identity by Stella Theocharous Pdf

Author : Reuben Rose-Redwood,Jani Vuolteenaho,Craig Young,Duncan Light
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000404258

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Naming Rights, Place Branding, and the Cultural Landscapes of Neoliberal Urbanism by Reuben Rose-Redwood,Jani Vuolteenaho,Craig Young,Duncan Light Pdf

In recent decades, urban policymakers have increasingly embraced the selling of naming rights as a means of generating revenue to construct and maintain urban infrastructure. The contemporary practice of toponymic commodification has its roots in the history of philanthropic gifting and the commercialization of professional sports, yet it has now become an integral part of the policy toolkit of neoliberal urbanism more generally. As a result, the naming of everything from sports arenas to public transit stations has come to be viewed as a sponsorship opportunity, yet such naming rights initiatives have not gone uncontested. This edited collection examines the political economy and cultural politics of urban place naming and considers how the commodification of naming rights is transforming the cultural landscapes of contemporary cities. Drawing upon case studies ranging from the selling of naming rights for sports arenas in European cities and metro stations in Dubai to the role of philanthropic naming in the "Facebookification" of San Francisco’s gentrifying neighborhoods, the contributions to this book draw attention to the diverse ways in which toponymic commodification is reshaping the identities of public places into time-limited, rent-generating commodities and the broader implications of these changes on the production of urban space. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Urban Geography.

Author : Lawrence D. Berg,Jani Vuolteenaho
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0754674533

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Critical Toponymies by Lawrence D. Berg,Jani Vuolteenaho Pdf

This book brings together recent works that conceptualize the hegemonic and contested practices of geographical naming. Illustrated with a global range of local and national studies, this ground-breaking volume illuminates the key role of naming in the colonial silencing of indigenous cultures, canonization of nationalistic ideals into nomenclature of cities and topographic maps, as well as the formation of more or less fluid forms of postcolonial and urban identities.

Author : Ali Cheshmehzangi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811610035

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Urban Memory in City Transitions by Ali Cheshmehzangi Pdf

As a continuation of ‘Identity of Cities and City of Identities’, this book covers the arguments around the memory-experience-cognition nexus concerning palimpsests and urban places. As cities experience transitional phases of growth, development, decline, and decay, the author urges considering the notion of urban memory in place-making strategies and design decision-making processes. These explorations would add value to primary fields of architecture, architectural history, cognitive science, human geography, and urbanism. Divided into eight chapters, this book puts together a comprehensive knowledge of urban memory in city transitions. By studying urban memory, the author delves into conceptions of mental mapping, knowledge of environments, cognition of places, and the perceptual dimension of urbanism. Undoubtedly, urban memory plays a significant part in the future movements of humanistic urbanism. Given the significances of scale, pace, and mode of city transitions globally, we should remember who are the ultimate users of those living environments. Therefore, in this book, the author debates two contradictions of ‘memory of place vs. place of memory’, and ‘significance of place vs. place of significance’. Each of these is believed to be a paradox of its own, indicating places are significant through the systematic networks of cities, memories are meaningful through the neural information processing, and place memories are the essence of urban identities. The book's ultimate goal is to demonstrate the effectiveness of the space-time frame of place in making memorable places. Through the comprehensive explorations of many global examples, we can evaluate the significance of place in mind more carefully. This is narrated based on the recognition of nostalgia in cities, socio-temporal qualities in places, and the network of processes in our minds. In return, the aim is to provide new knowledge to make memorable cities, enhance social experiences, and capture and value the significance of place in mind.

Author : Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781524748920

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Names of New York by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Pdf

"A casually wondrous experience; it made me feel like the city was unfolding beneath my feet.” —Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror In place-names lie stories. That’s the truth that animates this fascinating journey through the names of New York City’s streets and parks, boroughs and bridges, playgrounds and neighborhoods. Exploring the power of naming to shape experience and our sense of place, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro traces the ways in which native Lenape, Dutch settlers, British invaders, and successive waves of immigrants have left their marks on the city’s map. He excavates the roots of many names, from Brooklyn to Harlem, that have gained iconic meaning worldwide. He interviews the last living speakers of Lenape, visits the harbor’s forgotten islands, lingers on street corners named for ballplayers and saints, and meets linguists who study the estimated eight hundred languages now spoken in New York. As recent arrivals continue to find new ways to make New York’s neighborhoods their own, the names that stick to the city’s streets function not only as portals to explore the past but also as a means to reimagine what is possible now.

Author : Michael Bhatia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317969860

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Terrorism and the Politics of Naming by Michael Bhatia Pdf

Previously published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly, this volume assesses the nature, power, role and function of names in global politics and the international media. Names are not objective, they accrue subjective associations, for example 'Terrorist' has a very different connotation to 'Freedom-fighter'. The contributors seek the truth beneath the names assigned in an effort to remove the obscurity created by the power of 'the politics of naming' to the reality of the situation, taking examples from Al Qaeda, Russia's demonization of the Chechens and naming in the Israeli-Palestine conflict, among other important contemporary debates. Terrorism and the Politics of Naming makes a substantial contribution towards elucidating the power of naming in the discourse of conflict and will be of great interest to students and scholars of political philosophy, political theory, and politics and the media.

Author : Sergei Basik
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000778113

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Encountering Toponymic Geopolitics by Sergei Basik Pdf

This book provides cutting-edge insights on contemporary geopolitical toponymic policy and practice in post-Soviet countries. It examines the political features of place naming as a reflection of contemporary political discourse. With multidisciplinary insights from leading scholars, chapters explore a range of topics drawing on critical political toponymy and traditional methods. Contributions examine how the toponymic system can act as a symbol of national identity, the regional geopolitics of toponymy, and geopolitical patterns in contemporary renaming. The historical roots of toponymic decolonization are analyzed, as well as indigenous toponymy and politics, and toponymic aspects of people's daily lives. The book explores a wide range of processes in the post-Soviet realm, including power, identity, economy, social order, and how political power is changing/transforming. It considers how these processes are distributed through various geopolitical and political-economic technologies. Offering empirically rich research from a variety of regions to give insights beyond "Western" perspectives, this book is the first to provide an in-depth exploration of post-Soviet place naming. It will appeal to students and researchers in human geography, politics, sociology, Eastern European studies, onomastics and cultural studies.

Author : Celine-Marie Pascale
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412992213

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Social Inequality & The Politics of Representation by Celine-Marie Pascale Pdf

This anthology critically analyzes how cultures around the world make social categories of race, class, gender and sexuality meaningful in particular ways. The collection uses a wide range of readings to examine how contemporary issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality are constructed, mobilized, and transformed. Unlike many books in this area, the U.S. is not analytical center.

Author : Liora Bigon,Michel Ben Arrous
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000432411

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Street-Naming Cultures in Africa and Israel by Liora Bigon,Michel Ben Arrous Pdf

This book is focused on the street-naming politics, policies and practices that have been shaping and reshaping the semantic, textual and visual environments of urban Africa and Israel. Its chapters expand on prominent issues, such as the importance of extra-formal processes, naming reception and unofficial toponymies, naming decolonisation, place attachment, place-making and the materiality of street signage. By this, the book directly contributes to the mainstreaming of Africa’s toponymic cultures in recent critical place-names studies. Unconventionally and experimentally, comparative glimpses are made throughout between toponymic experiences of African and Israeli cities, exploring pioneering issues in the overwhelmingly Eurocentric research tradition. The latter tends to be concentrated on Europe and North America, to focus on nationalistic ideologies and regime change and to over-rely on top-down ‘mere’ mapping and street indexing. This volume is also unique in incorporating a rich and stimulating variety of visual evidence from a wide range of African and Israeli cities. The materiality of street signage signifies the profound and powerful connections between structured politics, current mundane practices, historical traditions and subaltern cultures. Street-Naming Cultures in Africa and Israel is an important contribution to urban studies, toponymic research and African studies for scholars and students. Chapters 1 and 2 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003173762

Author : Simon Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108483889

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Ancient Maya Politics by Simon Martin Pdf

With new readings of ancient texts, Ancient Maya Politics unlocks the long-enigmatic political system of the Classic Maya.